[Clip] Scarlett Johansson is a Badass in New Lucy Clip
We've already seen Scarlett Johansson portray a superhero in Iron Man 2, The Avengers, and Captain America: The Winter Soldier, but her Black Widow character is more of a really talented athlete with heightened senses and not exactly a "superhero." The perception will soon change in her next film, Lucy, which is written and directed by the illustrious Luc Besson (Nikita, Leon: The Professional, The Fifth Element). If you haven't seen the first trailer for Lucy, I recommend checking it out. The film is about a woman forced into trafficking drugs for a group, but in transit, they leak into her system, giving her the ability to use more than 10% of her brain.
Yes, the "10% of our brain" trope is so overused and cliche in sci-fi, but when it comes to Scarlett Johansson being given a reason to become a complete badass, who cares? Many similarities exist between Lucy and Bradley Cooper's Limitless, but whereas was like a drama thriller, Lucy is a straight sci-fi action film, which should make for some amazing sequences.
Watch this new red band clip of the film in which Johansson shows off the aforementioned transformation into baddassery and pulls a bullet completely straight out of her chest. Hopefully, it'll be enough to tide you over until Lucy's theatrical release on July 25th.
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[Trailer] Lucy
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Scarlett Johansson is definitely no slouch. With appearances in two different films releasing into theaters this weekend (Captain America: The Winter Soldier and Under the Skin), Johansson's going to be fresh in people's minds to jumpstart the month of April (as if she wasn't already on our minds, right?). Whereas she plays a superhero/secret agent in Marvel's Captain America: The Winter Soldier and an alien sexual predator in Jonathan Glazer's Under the Skin, her next role in Luc Besson's (Nikita, Leon: The Professional) Lucy may very well trump the two aforementioned films completely.
This first trailer for Lucy introduces us the eponymous Lucy (Johansson), a young woman who is forced to deliver drugs that have been surgically inserted in her stomach. However, after her captives beat her, the drugs begin to leak into her system, granting her extrasensory powers that allow her to tap into her brain's full potential. While it's a bit similar to the Bradley Cooper-led Limitless, Lucy is more focused on the action/thriller aspect of a human essentially becoming superhuman.
Lucy will be in theaters August 8th.